John McCain on Broadband and Technology Infrastructure
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Duration : 0:1:26
Olbermann-FISA, Telecom Immunity and other Crimes
Keith Olbermann: Special Comment By Keith Olbermann
MSNBC Countdown
Thursday 31 January 2008
Transcript
And finally, as promised, a Special Comment – of FISA and the telecoms.
In a presidency of hypocrisy – an administration of exploitation – a labyrinth of leadership – in which every vital fact is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma hidden under a claim of executive privilege supervised by an idiot – this one… is surprisingly easy.
President Bush has put protecting the telecom giants from the laws… ahead of protecting you from the terrorists.
He has demanded an extension of the FISA law – the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – but only an extension that includes retroactive immunity for the telecoms who helped him spy on you.
Congress has given him, and he has today signed a fifteen-day extension which simply kicks the time bomb down the field, and has changed nothing of his insipid rhetoric, in which he portrays the Democrats as ’soft on terror’ and getting in the way of his superhuman efforts to protect the nation… when, in fact, and with bitter irony, if anybody is ’soft on terror’ here… it is Mr. Bush.
In the State of the Union Address, sir, you told Congress, “if you do not act by Friday, our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger.”
Yet you are willing to weaken that ability!
You will subject us, your citizens, to that greater danger.
This, Mr. Bush, is simple enough even for you to understand: If Congress approves a new FISA act without telecom immunity and sends it to your desk and you veto it – you, by your own terms and your own definitions, you will have just sided with the terrorists.
Ya gotta have this law, or we’re all gonna die. But you might veto this law!
It’s bad enough, sir, that you are demanding an ex post facto law which would clear the phone giants from responsibility for their systematic, aggressive, and blatant collaboration with your illegal and unjustified spying on Americans, under the flimsy guise of looking for any terrorists stupid enough to make a collect call or send a mass e-mail.
But when you then demanded again, during the State of the Union address, that Congress retroactively clear the Verizons and the AT&T’s, you wouldn’t even confirm that they actually did anything for which they deserved to be cleared!
“The Congress must pass liability protection for companies believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend America.”
Believed?
Don’t you know?
Does the endless hair-splitting of your presidential fine print, extend even here?
If you, sir, are asking Congress, and us, to join you in this shameless, breathless, literal, textbook example of fascism – the merged efforts of government and corporations who answer to no government – you still don’t have the guts to even say the telecom companies did assist you, in your efforts?
Will you and the equivocators who surround you like a cocoon never go on the record about anything?
Even the stuff you claim to believe in?
Silly me.
Of course Mr. Bush is going to say “believed.”
Yes, it sounds dumber than if he had referred to himself as “the alleged president,” or had said today was “reportedly Thursday,” or had claimed “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq.
But the moment he says anything else, any doubt that the telecoms knowingly broke the law, is out the window, and with it, any chance that even the Republicans who are fighting this like they were trying to fend off terrorists using nothing but broken beer bottles and swear words couldn’t consent to retroactively immunize corporate criminals.
Which is why the Vice President probably shouldn’t have phoned in to the Rush Limbaugh Propaganda-Festival yesterday.
Sixth sentence out of Mr. Cheney’s mouth: The FISA bill is about, quote, “retroactive liability protection for the companies that have worked with us and helped us prevent further attacks against the United States.”
Oops.
Mr. Cheney is something of a loose cannon, of course.
But he kind of let the wrong cat out of the bag there.
Because Mr. Bush – and the corporations he values more than people – didn’t want anybody to verify what Mark Klein says.
Mark Klein is the AT&T whistleblower who appeared on this newscast last November, who explained, in the placid, dull terms of your local neighborhood I-T desk, how he personally attached all of AT&T’s circuits – everything carrying every phone call, every e-mail, every bit of web browsing – into a secure room…
…Room Number 641-A, at the Folsom Street facility in San Francisco – where it was all copied so the government could look at it.
For the continuation go to thr original at:
http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/31/626420.aspx
Duration : 0:9:44
Countdown: Special Comment Bush’s Telecom Coverup 1-31-08
Bush and his cronies trying to protect the Telecom Company’s from illegal wire tapping US Citizens.
Duration : 0:9:39
Telecom Timeout: Episode 2 — Quarterly Reports
Keeping you up-to-date on the latest in telecommunications industry news, views and strategy, Telecom Timeout and its weekly video blog track the highs and lows of the industry. Join us daily for conversations on developing telecom trends and in-depth analysis of service providers, VoIP, wireless, IPTV, telecom regulation, and more. Visit the blog at http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/telecom-timeout-blog/
Duration : 0:5:13
Telecom Timeout: Episode 7 — Recession Reactions
Keeping you up-to-date on the latest in telecommunications industry news, views and strategy, Telecom Timeout and its weekly video blog track the highs and lows of the industry. Join us daily for conversations on developing telecom trends and in-depth analysis of service providers, VoIP, wireless, IPTV, telecom regulation, and more. Visit the blog at http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/telecom-timeout-blog/
Duration : 0:9:16
Keynote: Rethinking Communications (1 of 7)
Keynote Presentation:
Rethinking Communications…
Where are we? What has changed? What hasn’t?
Part 1 of 7
Recorded at Voice Peering Forum Summer 2008
www.voicepeeringforum.com
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Duration : 0:9:37
Telecom Timeout YouTube
In this weeks episode of Telecom Timeout, we take a look at the big events of 2008, as well as taking a peak at what might be in store for 2009, including continued shakeups at Sprint and IPTV initiatives by Verizon and AT&T.
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Keeping you up-to-date on the latest in telecommunications industry news, views and strategy, Telecom Timeout and its weekly video blog track the highs and lows of the industry. Join us daily for conversations on developing telecom trends and in-depth analysis of service providers, VoIP, wireless, IPTV, telecom regulation, and more. Visit the blog at http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/telecom-timeout-blog/
Duration : 0:5:39
Has Divestiture Worked? Panel 1 – Historical perspective
The Internet Society – NY Chapter (ISOC-NY) & the Open Infrastructure Alliance (OIA) present a 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Breakup of AT&T
The goal of this conference was to outline the history of the last 25 years, discuss the current market issues, then give a view of the future of broadband and telecom in the US that has been mostly untold in the media. It is a future that leads to ubiquitous, very high speed networks based on an infrastructure that is open to all competitors — giving customers choice, lower prices and new quality products and innovative services. And widely acknowledged as critical for long term economic growth.
How does America get gigabit, open and ubiquitous, broadband telecom infrastructure?
EVENT: Has Divestiture Worked?
LOCATION: Warren Weaver Hall, NYU
DATE: Mar 6 2009
PANEL 1: Historical perspective:
* Bruce Kushnick – An overview and leading financial indicators. What happened over the last 25 years?
* Dean Landsman & Tom Allibone – Consumers: telephony costs and other issues of broadband.
* Ken Levy – Living history, perspective from within FCC during the Break Up!
* Alex Goldman – ISP/CLEC industry: regulatory follies over the past decade
* Mark Cooper – The Failure of Market Fundamentalism in the Telecom Sector: How Deregulation Derailed Divestiture or The Operation was Successful, but the Patient Died
Speaker bios: http://25thanniversaryofthebreakupofatt.blogspot.com/2009/03/speaker-bios.html
More/Comment: http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=618
Duration : 1:7:59
Has Divestiture Worked? Panel 2 – The Present State
The Internet Society – NY Chapter (ISOC-NY) & the Open Infrastructure Alliance (OIA) present a 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Breakup of AT&T
The goal of this conference was to outline the history of the last 25 years, discuss the current market issues, then give a view of the future of broadband and telecom in the US that has been mostly untold in the media. It is a future that leads to ubiquitous, very high speed networks based on an infrastructure that is open to all competitors — giving customers choice, lower prices and new quality products and innovative services. And widely acknowledged as critical for long term economic growth.
How does America get gigabit, open and ubiquitous, broadband telecom infrastructure?
EVENT: Has Divestiture Worked?
LOCATION: Warren Weaver Hall, NYU
DATE: Mar 6 2009
PANEL 2: The Present State:
* Jonathan Askin – The legal/regulatory environment then and now.
* Dave Burstein – Broadband market roundup
* Joe Plotkin – Small business broadband needs, and surviving as a small competitive provider.
* David Rosen – What filmmakers and other creators need to know.
* Carl Mayer – Privacy and the latest on the wiretapping case.
Speaker bios: http://25thanniversaryofthebreakupofatt.blogspot.com/2009/03/speaker-bios.html
Download/Comment: http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=618
Duration : 1:16:59
Has Divestiture Worked? Panel 3 – The Future State and Alternative Approaches:
The Internet Society – NY Chapter (ISOC-NY) & the Open Infrastructure Alliance (OIA) present a 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Breakup of AT&T
The goal of this conference was to outline the history of the last 25 years, discuss the current market issues, then give a view of the future of broadband and telecom in the US that has been mostly untold in the media. It is a future that leads to ubiquitous, very high speed networks based on an infrastructure that is open to all competitors — giving customers choice, lower prices and new quality products and innovative services. And widely acknowledged as critical for long term economic growth.
How does America get gigabit, open and ubiquitous, broadband telecom infrastructure?
EVENT: Has Divestiture Worked?
LOCATION: Warren Weaver Hall, NYU
DATE: Mar 6 2009
PANEL 3: The Future State and Alternative Approaches:
* Fred Goldstein – The current state of fiber optic networks. Are new models like Structural Separation needed now?
* Lou Klepner – NYC Community Fiber Project.
* Dana Spiegel – The future of broadband spectrum.
* W. Scott McCollough – Legally rewiring telecom infrastructure: What is possible? Divestiture2? Separation?
Speaker bios: http://25thanniversaryofthebreakupofatt.blogspot.com/2009/03/speaker-bios.html
Download/Comment: http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=618
Duration : 1:6:33